Humans will finally get a close-up look at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot for the first time
- NASA is about to make history by allowing humans to get an up-close look at a 10,000-mile-wide storm on Jupiter.
- The agency’s Juno spacecraft is set to fly by Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which scientists have been watching since 1830.
- The spot is essentially a giant storm that scientists believe could be up to 350 years old, though there’s still plenty to learn when it comes to Jupiter and its space weather.
- “Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special,” Scott Bolton, a principal investigator of Juno at San Antonio’s Southwest Research Institute, said in a release. Read more (7/3/17)
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